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The pursued speaker sits crushed in grave-like darkness.
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Psalms 143:3-4

my heart is desolate within me

for no one living can be in the right before · Psalms 143

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3For an enemy has pursued me; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

4And my spirit grows faint within me; my heart is desolate within me.

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